Continuous-variable quantum key distribution using thermal states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Weedbrook, Christian ^a,d   Pirandola, Stefano ^b   Ralph, Timothy C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NOISE; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; EAVESDROPPING ATTACKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVELENGTHS; GAUSSIAN RESOURCES; GAUSSIANS; HETERODYNE DETECTION; HOMODYNES; THEORETICAL LIMITS; THERMAL STATE; UPPER BOUND;

HETERODYNING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84865277420     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.022318     Document Type: Article

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